 The day broke beautifully clear, and having crossed a deep valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand...  The Quarterly Review (london) - Página 166por Anonymous - 1866 - 368 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 páginas
...long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water— ft boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west,...lake to a height of about 7000 feet above its level." THE SOURCES OF THE NILE. 99 Entrusting themselves to rnde canoes, they steered north, the lake growing... | |
 | Church missionary society - 162 páginas
...sighted the lake, in March 1864 — ," there like a sea of quicksilver lay, far beneath, the great expanse of water, a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; while on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake... | |
 | 1865 - 398 páginas
...incredible hardships and long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water — a boundless sea horizon on the...rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 700O feet above its level." THE SOURCES OF THE KILE. 99 Entrusting themselves to rude canoes, they... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about seven thousand feet above its level. " It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment ; here... | |
 | 1866 - 802 páginas
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountams rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 7,000 feet above its level. " It is impossible... | |
 | 1866 - 864 páginas
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of f\a prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in tho noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the... | |
 | 1867 - 974 páginas
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me. There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water, a boundless sea-horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noonday sun ; and on the west, at fifty... | |
 | 1866 - 848 páginas
...toiled up the opposite slop0 I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water ; a boundless seahorizon on the south and south-west glittering in the noonday sun ; and on the west, at fifty or... | |
 | 1866 - 404 páginas
...up the opposite slope. I hurried up to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quick-silver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water, — -a boundless sea-horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west at fifty... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 páginas
...sea horizon on the south and south-west glittered in the sunlight, and on the west, at fifty or siity miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about seven thousand feet above its level. " It is impossible," says our traveller, " to describe the triumph... | |
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